Windows file creation date/time using python

Question

I need to get a file creation date&time using python. I tried:

os.stat(r\"path\")[ST_CTIME]

But it is returning:

126353         


        

Answer 1

From bytes.com:

import os
import time
create_date = os.stat('/tmp/myfile.txt')[9]
print time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d", time.gmtime(create_date))

Which gives:

2009-11-25

You can also try:

print time.gmtime(create_date)
(2009, 11, 25, 13, 37, 9, 2, 329, 0)

For a more accurate timestamp.

Note that the time returned by time.gmtime() returns GMT; See the time module documentation for other functions, like localtime().